Hat sweatband



'1. T. Dov/DALLIk HAT swEATBAND.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 23

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HAT SWEATBAND.

T o all whom t mag/"concern:

Be it known that I,'JAMEs Dov'vlALL,l a citizen of the United States ofAmerica,

residing at Glen y Morris, Queens County,

Specicaticn of Letters Patent.

Patented June L27, 1922.'

lApplication led November 2,3, 1920. Serial Np. 425,944'.

f and thewire placed in the bight V11 thereof. vWhen the wire is appliedto the folded strip,

one end will have 'connected therewith a tube 12, the other end beingfree. The wire will State of New York, have invented certam \he somewhatlonger than the circumference new and useful Improvements in HatSweatbands, of which the following isa f ull, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to improvements in sweat bands for hats. Myinvention has `for one of its objects to. provide a sweat band for a hatthat will act as a cushionto afford comfort and also to act as agripping agent to maintain a hat on the head of the wearer; in otherwords, to make it more difficult to blow the hat olf' the head. Afurther object of the invention is to provide a sweat band that can bepreshaped and applied to a hat in assembled condition. My improved sweat'band is arranged so that it can'be completed,

entailing connecting the ends of Va strip of suitable material andapplying a yieldable or flexible stifl'ening element to cause the bandto hold its shape.

I will now proceed to describe my invention in detail, the novelfeatures of which I will hereinafter finally claim, reference be.accompanying drawing,

ing had to the wherein Fig. lis a sectional view of a hat embodying myimprovement, details of construction being omitted;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view, illustrating one wayof apply- -ing the band;

Fig. 3 is a similar view of another way of applying the band;

Fig. 4 is a detail plan view of the sweats band as it would appear whenviewed in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 1; and

l Fig. 5 is a fragmentary detail view, illustrating one ofthe elementsof the combination.

My improvement is made up of a strip 6 of suitable material secured atthe ends to form a sweat band for the inside of a hat 7. In combinationwith the band 6 I provide a flexible element or reed, preferably arelatively thin hardened wire 8 which is located adjacent the lower edge9 of the band. The wire or flexible reed 8 will be preferably carried bya supplemental band or strip 10 made out of material which isvon thebias in order that said auxiliary band or strip will yield or give lon`tudinally. The supplemental strip will be olded over of thestrip 10,which will be approximately.

of the proper size for a .given size` hat; hence, when the free end ofthe wire is inserted 1nto the open 'endl of the tube 12, the

strip will be stretched or placed under tenone of. its longitudinaledges, to the circular.

band 6. After having secured the strip 10 and band 6 together, said.strip will befolded over upon' itself, and the\reed or wire 8 placed inthe bight 11 and may be secured by stitches '15'. The ends of the reedor wirewill not be connected until thewire has vbeen placed in saidbight or fold4 11.' As the length of the wire will be slightly greaterthan the diameter of the band, it will be necessary to stretch the biasstrip 10 invorder to insert the free end of the wire into tube 12. Oneof the objects of using bias'material for the backing strip 10 is thatit can be stretched more readily than non-bias material.

-The article produced in thefabove manner will be complete in itself;that is to say, will be a complete sweatl band which will be preshapedand of such size as will enable it to be placed in a hat ofcorresponding size. To secure the band in a hat, the strip 10 will bestitched to the hat, as indicated by 16 in Fig. 2. A sweat band formedin this manner provides a yieldablecushioning element a band, I maysecure same to an apron 17- c'arried by the band, (See Fig. 3.) Ineither case the effect will be thev same.

A still further advantage of my improved sweat` band is that it rendersitself readily to machine sewing. Asjthe 0band will be .ing element.

formed, and under tension, before it is placed in a hat, it is a simplematter to stitch the reed to a hat by machine, which is a great savingover hand sewing. i

It will be noted that the band 6 will be separated or spaced somewhatfrom the hat; hence, is free to stretch or act as a ycushion- Myimproved constructionmakes it possible to maintain the band 6 spacedfrom the hat. It will-be also noted that the wire or reed 8 isnotdirectly secured to the band 6, but is located suiciently approximatethereto to exerta tensioning action thereupon.

'Having described my invention, what I claim is:

1. In a hat, a sweat band, a strip aiixed to said band and a reedcarried by the' strip the reed adapted to tension the strip outwar fromsaid band to Aform a cushion between the reed and band. y j

2. A sweat band consisting of a band,"a strip of bias-materialcarried-by the band,

a ring carried by the strip and provided with a telescoping joint, thering normally of materiallygreater diameter than the biased material; inplacing afyieldable reedv 35 into the. bight or folded portion of thestrip, said reed being disconnected at its ends and of greater diameterthan the diameter of f the band; andin placing the bias strip un- Y dertensionby causing the ends of the reed toabut.

signed at New York Cay, N; r.','this1^r day of November, '1920.

` y JAMES T. DOWDALL. Witnesses:

MAURICE BLOCK, EDWARD A. JARvIs.

